The paths are wide and easily navigable, and the staff were unstintingly friendly and eager to help, doubling as hype-men (and -women) in those boring moments when you’re sitting on a ride waiting for it to fill up. The rides, too, offer a good spread of experiences to satisfy the hardened adrenaline junkies and the more timid (or sensible) visitor. The park does a fine job of balancing the sense-assaulting noises and visuals necessary to appeal to kids without leaving adults feeling disoriented and nauseous. It’s effectively the park’s lobby - enclosed by shops and F&B outlets - from which you can access any of the park’s five other areas: Gotham City (Batman and his friends and foes), Metropolis (Superman and other DC heroes), Bedrock (The Flintstones), Cartoon Junction and Dynamite Gulch - the latter two home to attractions based on characters from Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera cartoons. We grabbed our entrance tickets (roughly $80) and our fast-track “Flash Passes” (an additional $40 to skip the queues) and headed into the Plaza. The park opened on July 25, and I visited with my 10-year-old nephew Mansour on the first Friday after its launch, figuring that he would be closer to the target market than a grumpy 46-year-old. parks in Spain and Australia) and a lot of money (a reported $1 billion investment from Miral - an arm of the Abu Dhabi government). The ingredients for success are all here - wildly popular franchises including Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes and DC Comics previous experience (there are Warner Bros. The latest entrant in the game is the (thankfully) all-indoor Warner Bros.
But none of them (with the exception of one or two of the water parks) has yet proved to be the kind of year-round people-magnet that the best parks in the rest of the world are. ‘Surprisingly’ because it’s a region with an abundance of young people with some serious disposable income, and you’d think that theme parks - family friendly, culturally appropriate, fun and exciting - would be a no-brainer. DUBAI: Theme parks, somewhat surprisingly, haven’t had much success in the Gulf so far.
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